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User Name bplaney
Member Since 2004-05-17
Total number of Feedback Posts: 26
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America Online (AOL) 10.3.7 Beta 2 (Mac OS X)
AOL is a dead product. [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 08 2005 @ 01:16 PM PDT
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It seems that the Rube-Goldberg fetishists at Adobe want to remain king of the arm-down-the-throat-and-out-the-hiney-hole software update - and they retain their title with no competition in sight. Instead of just letting you download (like everyone else) a simple .dmg file that you can mount and from which you can run a patching application, Adobe decides to build an elaborate front end that needs to communicate with Central Command via various HTTP ports, then downloads the necessary .dmg files and sticks them in a place you cannot see during the process (unless.... read on)... THEN, after the update runs, successful or not, the updater script DELETES these .dmg files so that in order to take another stab at it, you would have to download them ALL OVER AGAIN!!! Well, let me tell you how to bypass part of their insanity. While the updater is downloading to your computer, open the User/Library/Acrobat User Data/7.0/Updater folder. You will see the .dmg file(s) there. When the download is complete, but before running the update, drag-copy these files to another location (because the end of the update process DELETES them completely, not just throws them in the trash). Quit the Adobe process and go to the copies you put somewhere else, mount, then run the simple patch program that works like all other patch programs work (asks you to locate and select the application you wish to update). Why Adobe needed all the subterfuge and false front end on this process is beyond me. Running the patch this way also lets you keep the update .dmg file for archive/update purposes. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 07:39 AM PDT
Apple iTunes 4.8 (Mac OS X)
Has Apple finally added support for FLAC, APE, SHN etc.? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 06:36 AM PDT
MathMagic Pro for QuarkXPress 5.03 (Mac OS X)
Someone is actually wasting their time producing plug-ins for a product that runs on OS9/Classic, a DEAD product at that? Folks, the action is all over at Adobe's lemonade stand. Quark is pffffttttt! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 06:03 PM PDT
FontAgent Pro 3.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Plug-ins still not "there"; otherwise excellent program
The 3.0.1 update has still not fixed the following behavior: open an InDesign document with inactive fonts, and FontAgent will inform you that it is loading them. Then you still have to deal with the dialog from InDesign that "XX fonts could not be found" even though they were just activated. After dismissing the dialog, the fonts draw correctly, indicating that they were, in fact, activated properly by FontAgent. FontAgent SHOULD activate them in such a way that InDesign never gets to present this dialog. [alert admin]
Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 06:28 AM PDT
Adobe InDesign CS 3.0.1 April (Mac OS X)
Why is updater file mod date from July 2004?
If you are going to put out a trustworthy updater named after the month and year in which you release it, hadn't the modification date of the actual updater file you provide ought to bear some chronological resemblance to that date? I did a get info on the updater file and it is July 12, 2004. I suppose the computer on which the installer was created could have been totally disconnected from any sort of time server, but I honestly hesitate to apply this update when the mod date actually precedes a supposedly earlier update (August 2004). Adobe looks really unprofessional here, as they often do when it comes to the subject of updaters to Mac products. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 21 2005 @ 07:32 AM PDT
FontAgent Pro 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Has problems with Illustrator CS 
One thing I liked about Font Reserve when it was still a good program was the flawlessness of the auto-activation in Illustrator and Quark. FontAgent seems to lag a bit in this department. For example, when opening an InDesign document, Font agent can't activate the fonts before InDesign reports to me that they are missing... but when the document finishes opening they are all active anyway. Illustrator has a slightly different problem. FontAgent activates the fonts, but the blank space characters get substituted out with question marks (i.e. "Text?Headline"); if you close the document and immediately reopen it, the blank space characters render without problem. This is annoying if your file takes a while to open. Fix these problems and you'll add some polish to what is already the best OSX font manager. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, March 16 2005 @ 01:06 PM PST
SoX Wrap 1.1.2 (Mac OS X)
continuing the tradition of most audio convertors already out there, the major lossless formats are solidly ignored. [alert admin]
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Monday, February 14 2005 @ 06:03 PM PST
America Online (AOL) 10.3.6 Beta 3 (Mac OS X)
AOL is such a crappy way to access the internet. Overpriced, slow, crappy POS. I wish I had the $1000's back that I spent as their customer from 1991-2000. [alert admin]
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Thursday, February 03 2005 @ 04:19 PM PST
MegaSeg DJ 3.0.1 (Mac OS X)
No support for Lossless formats
This thing will not work with my .FLAC or .SHN files (I haven't tried .APE yet). This was the first and only thing I tried with the software: Import -> .FLAC (no go); Import -> SHN (no go). So what can this software offer me? I don't mess with .mp3 or .wav or .mp4 formats. [alert admin]
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Monday, January 24 2005 @ 08:16 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by bplaney [ Search for All ]
Great software, lacks network support
It needs no network support - you can use Share Screen from the Fiinder or programs like Remote Desktop or Timbuktu - quite easy to drive the scanner from whatever machine it is connected to.
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Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 08:02 AM PST
Well, if that's my tax dollars at work, I say, fine - some of the money our government steals from us should go to projects like this, rather than to a stupid war I don't support that will ultimately make the rest of the world hate our burger flippin', Thomas Kinkade-buyin', SUV-drivin', channel-surfin', Disney-fied, fat, entertain-o-maniac asses even more than they already do. Bush is asking for another $82 billion for his little oil…
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Thursday, February 17 2005 @ 02:34 PM PST
